[FEATURE]: Add support for Linux PRIMARY selection (middle-click paste) #43176

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2. github-actions commented on Aug 18, 2026

   

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   This issue might be a duplicate of existing issues. Please check:

   • [FEATURE]: Add support for Linux PRIMARY selection (middle-click paste) #29963: Exact same feature request (same title, same author, same content — this appears to be a re-post of that closed issue)
   • Wayland clipboard copy doesn't populate primary clipboard selection #6110: Wayland clipboard copy doesn't populate primary clipboard selection (same underlying problem and proposed solution)

   If you reopened this because #29963 was closed without resolution, please consider commenting on the original issue to request it be reopened, or provide additional context here about why a new issue is warranted.
3. bornmw commented on Aug 18, 2026

   

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   If you reopened this because #29963 was closed without resolution, please consider commenting on the original issue to request it be reopened, or provide additional context here about why a new issue is warranted.

   The original issue closure comment literally instructs to open new issue: "If the issue is still relevant please open a new one."

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4. kylebakerio commented on Aug 21, 2026

   

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   yes, copy and pasting out of opencode is wild. nothing else has this problem in linux and hijacks copy/pasting this way. I get the feeling that a windows user thought that highlight-to-copy was a cool idea, so they implemented it themselves from scratch. Which, it is a cool idea. but by doing their custom thing, they're overriding that we already have a way to do this in linux, and we use two clipboards, and they're completely breaking that functionality.

   likewise with pasting, I constantly have my flow broken trying to figure out how to paste in when I go to middle click paste and it doesn't work and then I have to figure out how to paste in to opencode.

   I honestly never realized ctrl+shift+v could paste into the terminal after all these years. I just was middle click pasting. I learned that feature just because of opencode.

   but that's still not a substitute for beaking the os. this feature is critical.

   luckily this looks likely to be merged: #32370
5. bornmw commented on Sep 22, 2026

   

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   #32370 still not merged, but I've been running it locally for over a month now, it's amazing
6. donbowman commented on Sep 23, 2026

   

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   I too am somewhat desperate to get #32370 merged, its so awful as it is.
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8. opencodejr commented on Oct 28, 2026

   

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   Thanks for opening this again, @bornmw! The request: when you copy text in the TUI (including copy-on-select), it should also (or instead) go to the Linux PRIMARY selection so middle-click paste works. You suggest a linux_clipboard_selection option with clipboard, primary and both.

   Right now the TUI only reads from and writes to the CLIPBOARD selection (packages/tui/src/clipboard.ts), so this is new behaviour rather than a bug. Maintainers will consider it.

   Related issues:

   • [FEATURE]: Add support for Linux PRIMARY selection (middle-click paste) #29963: your original request for this, closed automatically after a period of inactivity. A maintainer commented there about where the clipboard handling should live.
   • X Window (xorg) middle-click paste doesn't work #6072: middle-click pasting into OpenCode on X11. As you noted, that's a different problem.
9. axeluhl commented on Oct 30, 2026

   

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   yes, copy and pasting out of opencode is wild. nothing else has this problem in linux and hijacks copy/pasting this way

   Copilot's CLI has exactly the same issue on a GNOME terminal.